AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N6000

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1996 points

58% significantly better overall score

1259 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

35% slightly better gaming score

2315 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

966 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

70% significantly better heavy workload score

927 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1090 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

473 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

6 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

879th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4 LPDDR4x

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Pentium Silver N6000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Pentium Silver N6000 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Silver N6000 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000. The Pentium Silver N6000 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2500U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.